Greg Buchanan

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Greg Buchanan, a Partner with StoneTurn, brings 18 years of combined experience in forensic accounting, litigation consulting and auditing. He has extensive experience working on anti-corruption and anti-bribery matters, complex forensic accounting investigations, and commercial litigation engagements involving public and private companies.

Greg has assisted companies and legal counsel on a variety of complex accounting matters, including government enforcement actions, related to various Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”) issues, including the improper treatment of revenue recognition, inaccurate and inappropriate accounting of reserves and expenses, and other financial reporting irregularities. He has advised his clients on various accounting fraud issues including embezzlements, procurement fraud, kickback schemes, securities fraud, false financial reporting, and other complex accounting issues.

Greg has significant expertise in anti-corruption and anti-bribery matters. Particularly, he has conducted worldwide corruption investigations, including assisting his clients with potential Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) violations, in numerous industries including consumer products, hedge funds, healthcare, medical products, manufacturing, real estate, amongst others. He has assisted numerous FCPA monitors by performing forensic accounting analyses, conducting complex data analytics and working on other analyses related to multi-year monitorships. He has also developed FCPA training materials for numerous companies to assist their internal audit and compliance departments in the determination of whether they have implemented an effective FCPA compliance program to meet regulatory requirements.

He has participated in a variety of litigation matters, including purchase price disputes, the preparation and analysis of damage claims, bankruptcy matters and royalty audits, among others.

Greg has reported findings and recommendations to legal counsel, boards of directors, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), Office of Thrift Supervision, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) and other regulators.

Prior to joining StoneTurn, Greg worked in the Forensic Accounting and Audit practices at KPMG, and the Forensic Accounting and Litigation Consulting practice at Kroll.

Greg is a Certified Public Accountant (licensed in the state of Illinois), a Certified Fraud Examiner and is Certified in Financial Forensics.

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Education

B.S., Accountancy, Indiana University

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